Santa Barbara Paper Is History

okfine · Aug 3, 2023

One of the only California newspapers that endorsed Donald Trump is gone.
Wendy McCaw is the person responsible for its demise.

"Many residents and former News-Press employees blame McCaw for destroying the goodwill she inherited when she bought the paper"

“It was a professional paper when the New York Times owned it,” said Kevin Young, a retired Santa Barbara real estate broker who subscribed to the News-Press for decades. Young said he grew increasingly disenchanted with the paper as it shrank and as McCaw’s political shadow fell over its opinion and news columns. “It became a nauseating way to start the day for us more left-wing California Democrats,” Young said.

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Auld Phart · Aug 3, 2023

okfine said:
One of the only California newspapers that endorsed Donald Trump is gone.
Wendy McCaw is the person responsible for its demise.

"Many residents and former News-Press employees blame McCaw for destroying the goodwill she inherited when she bought the paper"

“It was a professional paper when the New York Times owned it,” said Kevin Young, a retired Santa Barbara real estate broker who subscribed to the News-Press for decades. Young said he grew increasingly disenchanted with the paper as it shrank and as McCaw’s political shadow fell over its opinion and news columns. “It became a nauseating way to start the day for us more left-wing California Democrats,” Young said.

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okfine said:
“It was a professional paper when the New York Times owned it,”

Thats an oxymoron if I've ever seen one.

22lcidw · Aug 3, 2023

okfine said:
One of the only California newspapers that endorsed Donald Trump is gone.
Wendy McCaw is the person responsible for its demise.

"Many residents and former News-Press employees blame McCaw for destroying the goodwill she inherited when she bought the paper"

“It was a professional paper when the New York Times owned it,” said Kevin Young, a retired Santa Barbara real estate broker who subscribed to the News-Press for decades. Young said he grew increasingly disenchanted with the paper as it shrank and as McCaw’s political shadow fell over its opinion and news columns. “It became a nauseating way to start the day for us more left-wing California Democrats,” Young said.

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While surviving off of capitalist comforts.

Silent Warrior · Aug 3, 2023

okfine said:
One of the only California newspapers that endorsed Donald Trump is gone.
Wendy McCaw is the person responsible for its demise.

"Many residents and former News-Press employees blame McCaw for destroying the goodwill she inherited when she bought the paper"

“It was a professional paper when the New York Times owned it,” said Kevin Young, a retired Santa Barbara real estate broker who subscribed to the News-Press for decades. Young said he grew increasingly disenchanted with the paper as it shrank and as McCaw’s political shadow fell over its opinion and news columns. “It became a nauseating way to start the day for us more left-wing California Democrats,” Young said.

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Most people became disenchanted with the New York Times when they quit using outhouses.

yidnar · Aug 3, 2023

okfine said:
One of the only California newspapers that endorsed Donald Trump is gone.
Wendy McCaw is the person responsible for its demise.

"Many residents and former News-Press employees blame McCaw for destroying the goodwill she inherited when she bought the paper"

“It was a professional paper when the New York Times owned it,” said Kevin Young, a retired Santa Barbara real estate broker who subscribed to the News-Press for decades. Young said he grew increasingly disenchanted with the paper as it shrank and as McCaw’s political shadow fell over its opinion and news columns. “It became a nauseating way to start the day for us more left-wing California Democrats,” Young said.

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the NYT owned it !! :auiqs.jpg:

okfine · Aug 3, 2023

yidnar said:
the NYT owned it !!

Then a RWinger bought it and destroyed it. Hah Ha Ha!

okfine · Aug 3, 2023

Hugo Furst said:
Thats an oxymoron if I've ever seen one.

When a Trumphumper bought it, it went downhill, then in the toilet.

Auld Phart · Aug 3, 2023

okfine said:
When a Trumphumper bought it, it went downhill, then in the toilet.

Really?

okfine said:
“It became a nauseating way to start the day for us more left-wing California Democrats,” Young said.

Sounds like Young is almost as partisan as you are.

But the owner should have had more sense than to back a right leaning newspaper in that area,

okfine · Aug 3, 2023

Hugo Furst said:
Really?

Sounds like Young is almost as partisan as you are.

But the owner should have had more sense than to back a right leaning newspaper in that area,

Try real hard to deny what I said. She destroyed the paper. A fact.

Bob Blaylock · Aug 3, 2023

okfine said:
One of the only California newspapers that endorsed Donald Trump is gone.
Wendy McCaw is the person responsible for its demise.

"Many residents and former News-Press employees blame McCaw for destroying the goodwill she inherited when she bought the paper"

“It was a professional paper when the New York Times owned it,” said Kevin Young, a retired Santa Barbara real estate broker who subscribed to the News-Press for decades. Young said he grew increasingly disenchanted with the paper as it shrank and as McCaw’s political shadow fell over its opinion and news columns. “It became a nauseating way to start the day for us more left-wing California Democrats,” Young said.

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I grew up reading the Santa Barbara News Press. From the time I could first read, it seems, it was part of my dally routine, at some point, to work my way through the day's edition of it. I continued to subscribe to it when I moved to Lompoc in the late 1990s, not fining Lompoc's own local paper satisfactory. When I moved to Sacramento, in 2004, it was no longer practical to subscribe to the SBNP. I subscribed, for a while, to the Sacramento Bee, but it just didn't do it for me. There could never, for me, be a substitute for the Santa Barbara News Press, and when I could no longer easily get it, that was pretty much the end of newspaper reading for me.

okfine · Aug 3, 2023

Bob Blaylock said:
I grew up reading the Santa Barbara News Press. From the time I could first read, it seems, it was part of my dally routine, at some point, to work my way through the day's edition of it. I continued to subscribe to it when I moved to Lompoc in the late 1990s, not fining Lompoc's own local paper satisfactory. When I moved to Sacramento, in 2004, it was no longer practical to subscribe to the SBNP. I subscribed, for a while, to the Sacramento Bee, but it just didn't do it for me. There could never, for me, be a substitute for the Santa Barbara News Press, and when I could no longer easily get it, that was pretty much the end of newspaper reading for me.

It was a quality newspaper.

odanny · Aug 3, 2023

The carcass of this paper might be purchased by Gannett, which will strip staff down to the bare minimum and publish pages of ads and national news, turning local reporting into a pablum of restaurant reviews and local sports teams. It's happening all across the country and mainstream Americans are losing that voice that would hold elected officials accountable and report on both the good and the bad a city has to offer.

okfine · Aug 3, 2023

odanny said:
The carcass of this paper might be purchased by Gannett, which will strip staff down to the bare minimum and publish pages of ads and national news, turning local reporting into a pablum of restaurant reviews and local sports teams. It's happening all across the country and mainstream Americans are losing that voice that would hold elected officials accountable and report on both the good and the bad a city has to offer.

You just described KEYT TV in SB. Owned by Smith Broadcasting.

Bob Blaylock · Aug 3, 2023

okfine said:
You just described KEYT TV in SB. Owned by Smith Broadcasting.

In the time I lived there, I think there were only three TV stations that were local. KEYT on VHF-3 was the main one. There was a PBS station, KCET on UHF-28, and at some point, I discovered that there was a station on UHF-24 that seemed to just be the same content as VHF-3.

Auld Phart · Aug 4, 2023

okfine said:
It was a quality newspaper.

then why did the NYT sell it?

okfine · Aug 4, 2023

Here is Wendy and her ex husband Craig McCaw. His wife got half in the divorce which, at the time, made her the richest woman in California. In 1994 he sold his cell phone company to AT&T.